Tim Wendel is a Philadelphia-born American writer whose works have appeared in many newspapers and magazines such as the National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, both the Huffington Post and Washington Post among others. In 2004 he was awarded with the Professional Achievement Award and five years later received an Award for Teaching Excellence from Johns Hopkins University. He grew up in New York and is currently lives in Washington, D.C. with a wife and two kids. He is also an author of more than nine books, the recent of which is Summer of '68: The Season When Baseball, and America, Changed Forever which was named a top 10 choice by Publishers Weekly and was also named Notable Book of the Year 2013 by the Michigan State. Wendel is also a writer in residence at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a recipient of the Walter E. Dakin Fellow and Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers' Conference, beside being a Pen/Faulkner visiting writer to the Washington, D.C. Public Schools. Wendel has a masters degree in writing from Johns Hopkins and a bachelor's degree in magazine journalism from Syracuse University. [More at Wikipedia]